NY appeals judge to discuss pro-bono program

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The top judge of the New York Court of Appeals will talk about the need for lawyers to donate their services to the poor during a lecture at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

Judge Jonathan Lippman will discuss his first-in-the-nation requirement that new lawyers volunteer their services as a prerequisite to their right to practice law.

He will be the first speaker in the lecture series named for Norman Stahl — a veteran New Hampshire trial attorney who has senior status but still judges cases on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.

The lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the Rich Room of the University of New Hampshire School of Law at 2 White Street in Concord.